<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div id="yiv0166423183"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hello,</span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm new to QGIS. I was hoping that someone can answer a very basic question for me.</span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;
font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Can QGIS display Digital Nautical Chart (DNC) data in Vector Product Format (VPF) from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency of the United States government? Here’s a web page describing these DNCs.</span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www1.nga.mil/ProductsServices/NauticalHydrographicBathymetricProduct/Pages/DigitalNauticalChart.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font
color="#196ad4">https://www1.nga.mil/ProductsServices/NauticalHydrographicBathymetricProduct/Pages/DigitalNauticalChart.aspx</font></a></span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Supported Data Formats page under the User Manual section of the QGIS website provides the following link:</span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#196ad4">http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html</font></a> </span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This page says that the OGDI libray, which is necessary for
VPF data, is not compiled into the OGR library by default.</span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is why I’m asking the question.</span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank You in advance,</span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv0166423183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mark</span></div></div></div></div><div></div></div></body></html>